In this movie we're going to take our scareflakes, and we're going to give them a…little bit of a glow, and we are going to set them against a photographic…background, and we'll adjust their translucency from one scareflake to another.…Now, you can do that kind of stuff inside of Illustrator if you want;…however, blurs and glows in particular are not Illustrator's forte.…They don't look all that great, and they really slow things down.…Whereas, if we go ahead and take our scareflakes into Photoshop, we can blur…them, we can set them against a photographic background, we can paint in a layer…mask, we can do all this stuff lickety-split, and we still retain the option of…editing our artwork inside Illustrator.…

Let me show you how that works.…I'm going to go ahead and switch back to Illustrator.…Now, because we want a photographic background, we want to get rid of the…current background, so go to the Layers panel and turn off the layer at the…bottom of the stack, backdrop.…Now we are seeing white snowflakes against a white background, so in other…

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2/13/2018

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1/13/2011

This course is a collection of short Photoshop and Illustrator projects and creative effects that can be completed in ten minutes or less. The series is taught by computer graphics guru Deke McClelland, and presented in his signature step-by-step style. The intent is to reveal how various Photoshop and Illustrator features can be combined and leveraged in real-world examples so that they can be applied to creative projects right away.

Skill Level Intermediate

116h 46m

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